Gansu province’s Jiuquan wind power base will have 15 GW capacity by 2015.
The Xinjiang wind power generation base in Hami will produce 20 GW of electricity. Inner Mongolia will have a 20 GW and 30 GW wind power base in western and eastern part of the region, respectively.
Both Hebei and Jiangsu will each have wind power facilities capable of generating 10 GW but 70% of Jiangsu’s wind power will come from offshore operations.
If all the wind power bases finish construction by 2020, wind will account for 3% of the country’s overall power generation capacity, up from 1.1% in 2008, NEA Deputy Director of Renewable Energy Department Shi Lishan, adding these facilities will cost RMB1 trillion.
Wind power generation capacity in China grew from 4 GW to 10 GW in 2008.
Hebei is planning to attract RMB100 billion in investment for its wind farm projects, which will provide the province a total wind power capacity of 12 GW by 2020, a senior provincial energy official said.
The province, one of the country’s key wind power bases due to its closeness to North China’s grid load center, will jointly fund the massive energy projects with nation’s top power firms and other investors, Zhao Weidong vice director of the Hebei Provincial Development and Reform Commission’s Energy department said.
The province’s total installed wind power capacity reached 1.1 GW in 2008, second only to Inner Mongolia.
The country’s five leading power generating groups, China Huaneng Group, China Datang Group, China Guodian Group Corporation, China Huadian Corporation and China Power Investment Corporation were all involved in wind farms projects in the province, said Zhao.
The largest existing projects are ones by China Energy Conservation Investment Corporation, which installed a 300 MW wind farm, and smaller wind farms build by Guohua Energy Investment Company and Hebei Construction Investment Corporation, said Zhao.
